We want your
feedback

Health & Nutrition

At Accountability Initiative, we see funding as a key piece in the puzzle of building a public health system that is responsive to needs. While India continues to spend much lower than most other countries on public health as a proportion of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), utilisation of funds in India’s flagship health schemes like the National Health Mission (NHM) remain low. As India faces an important shift in disease burden from communicable to non-communicable diseases, this is a critical time to ensure optimal delivery of public health services by policy-makers, administrators and frontline functionaries. We have partnered with state governments and multilateral organisations to understand the existing root causes of lapses in financing public health systems of states. We have tracked the functioning of nutrition programmes in Chhattisgarh, parsed the public financing system in Uttar Pradesh, and carefully analysed the impact of the Government of India’s welfare programmes for new mothers. An enabled system can recognise and work to address the needs of the people. Our commentary and publicly available reports are an attempt to provide deeper understanding to the public on health and nutrition related matters, issues that impact them.

New in Health & Nutrition

Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission: Boon or Bane?
Madhur Sharma, Ritwik Shukla

This is the second of a two-part blog series on the promises and challenges of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission.  ...

At a Glance: Budget Session 2023 (Part-2)
Aprajita Verma

The Budget Session of Parliament commenced on 31st January and is scheduled to conclude on 6th April. The session adjourned on 14th February for a mon...

Building the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission Ecosystem
Madhur Sharma, Ritwik Shukla

This is the first of a two part blog series on the promises and challenges of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission. ...

PM Poshan| Experts Express Concern Over Quality of Food, Seek Higher Budget Allocation
Kiran Khatri

The PM POSHAN scheme covers 12 crore children in India and is touted to be one of the world's largest school meal programmes....